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8 lessons · 5 CPD hoursBasic emergency care for first-level facilitiesEight lessons on the ABCDE and SAMPLE approach, triage, breathing, shock, the unconscious patient, the trauma primary survey, burns, poisoning, children in emergencies and safe transfer, based on WHO-ICRC Basic Emergency Care.Open8 lessons · 5 CPD hoursClinical examination skills for first-level careEight step-by-step skills lessons: vital signs and the MUAC tape, chest and heart, abdomen, a 10-minute neurological check, feet, skin and lymph nodes, the IMCI child examination, the antenatal examination, and eyes and ears with simple tools.Open7 lessons · 4.5 CPD hoursType 2 diabetes in primary care (WHO PEN and HEARTS-D)Seven lessons on finding, diagnosing, treating and following up type 2 diabetes with the WHO PEN and HEARTS-D protocols, including emergencies, sick days, the diabetic foot, insulin without a reliable fridge, and diabetes in pregnancy.Open6 lessons · 4 CPD hoursHypertension and cardiovascular risk in primary care (WHO HEARTS)Six lessons on finding, treating and following up high blood pressure and total cardiovascular risk with the WHO HEARTS approach, including accurate measurement, pregnancy and follow-up systems.Open6 lessons · 4 CPD hoursThe sick child: IMCI in practiceSix lessons on the IMCI charts: danger signs, cough, diarrhoea, fever and malaria, malnutrition and feeding counselling, and the sick young infant and HIV-exposed infant, with worked cases.Open8 lessons · 4 CPD hoursLeadership and running a primary care clinicEight practical lessons for the person in charge: leading a team, task sharing, supervision, quality improvement, triage and patient flow, medicines, data, patient safety and the community.Open7 lessons · 4.5 CPD hoursMental health essentials (mhGAP)Seven lessons on essential mental health care in non-specialist settings using the WHO mhGAP approach: communication, psychological first aid and self-care, depression, self-harm and suicide, psychosis and epilepsy, children and adolescents, dementia and drug use.Open7 lessons · 5 CPD hoursNCD extension: kidneys, heart failure, lungs, stroke, cancer and severe NCDsSeven lessons that go beyond hypertension and diabetes: chronic kidney disease, heart failure, asthma and COPD in depth, stroke, cancer early diagnosis, polypharmacy, and severe NCDs under PEN-Plus.Open8 lessons · 5 CPD hoursRunning NCD services: clinics, medicines, registers and qualityEight lessons on the systems behind good NCD care: planning a clinic, essential medicines and forecasting, cohort registers and the HEARTS control rate, task-sharing, follow-up and tracing, quality improvement, HIV and TB integration, and what to do when supply fails.Open8 lessons · 4 CPD hoursNCD care in humanitarian settingsEight lessons on keeping people with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, asthma, COPD, epilepsy and mental health conditions safe in a crisis: priorities, triage, interrupted treatment, kits, organising care, insulin and the cold chain, and people who depend on dialysis and specialist care.Open8 lessons · 5 CPD hoursPain management and palliative care in primary careEight lessons on assessing pain, the WHO approach to cancer pain, safe oral morphine, neuropathic and chronic pain, symptom control, the last days of life, talking with families, and palliative care in crises.Open8 lessons · 4 CPD hoursSafe pregnancy and birth: antenatal and postnatal contactsEight lessons on the WHO eight-contact antenatal model, the preventive package, pre-eclampsia, anaemia, postnatal care and contraception, postpartum haemorrhage, maternal sepsis and the newborn at birth.Open8 lessons · 5 CPD hoursSexual and reproductive health and family planning in primary careEight lessons on rights-based contraceptive counselling, the WHO MEC, every method from pills to IUDs, emergency, postpartum and post-abortion contraception, PrEP, adolescents and infertility.Open
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